Brandi Glanville says she feels “embarrassed” by a GoFundMe campaign launched by her friend Gina Rodriguez as the former reality star continues seeking treatment for facial disfigurement.
The “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” alum grew emotional on Friday’s episode of her “Brandi Glanville Unfiltered” podcast as she opened up about how hard it has been to accept help from others.
“I’m embarrassed, honestly, because I don’t like to ask for help,” Glanville, 53, told co-host James Maas.
“I never thought I would do this,” she said, explaining that Rodriguez told her, “You have no choice.”
Glanville described the mounting financial pressure tied to her medical care, saying she is paying $7,000 a week in treatment costs despite having insurance.
According to Glanville, creditors contact her repeatedly throughout the day. She said that if she stops making payments, she could lose access to medication and see her treatment progress come to a halt, leaving her “spent in every way.”
The former model said she “[doesn’t] want anyone to see” the fundraising page, but acknowledged that she is unsure what other options remain.
Maas reassured Glanville that there was no shame in accepting support. “It’s not embarrassing. What’s embarrassing is the whole medical system … You need a GoFundMe,” he told her.
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Glanville recently shared several diagnoses after years of unexplained facial health problems, including “highly resistant ESBL Klebsiella and Enterobacter with biofilm, Coccidioidomycosis (Valley fever), Demodex dermatitis and mononucleosis.”
She also revealed that doctors found a fungal ball in her face, which she is preparing to have surgically removed.
The television personality recently shared footage of an ultrasound on Instagram, saying her doctor “saw something alive” and “moving” in her face during the examination.
“If I don’t find a doctor to cut this out of my face, I’m just going to do it myself,” she said in the video.
Glanville first addressed her facial disfigurement publicly in 2024, when she claimed Bravo was to blame for her appearance and said the condition had left her “miserable” and “depressed.”
“I’m not even going to share the picture of when it sinks in,” she said at the time. “Stress will kill you. How is your wealth? Take care of yourself, people. Thank you, Bravo. I couldn’t even work if I wanted to at this point.”
That same year, Glanville also shared that some medical professionals believed she had a parasite that was “jump[ing] around [her] face,” while others attributed the issue to “stress-induced edema.”
In February, she blamed her health issues on her 20-year-old ruptured breast implants, which she said had leaked silicone in her lymph nodes.
Glanville later learned that she had a benign facial tumor in one of the lymph nodes in her face.